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Old 03-26-10 | 02:13 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Completing puzzles/challenges and the co-op campaign net you achievements and they're fun, so you might as well.
I know have unlocked all the cards in the campaign for every deck and beat the final Boss and done all the challenges.

I remember after beating the game it says that the next time you play thru your opponents are harder. Do you get achievements for going thru the campaign again?
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No, but the co-op campaign is different. You can play it by yourself with two controllers if need-be.
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I know the vast majority of you don't give half-a-shit about Penny Arcade or the games, but there isn't going to be any more episodes in the PA Adventures series. They'll finish the story on the website. Shame because I actually enjoyed the first two.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/26/pe...be-an-episode/
Hmm.... Perhaps in retrospect it may not have been such a good idea to charge $20 for part one of a serialized download-only action RPG with limited niche appeal with five hours of gameplay and no replay-ability.

But since you like it pinata, I'll give a half shit. Hell, I'll give a whole one.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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I know the vast majority of you don't give half-a-shit about Penny Arcade or the games, but there isn't going to be any more episodes in the PA Adventures series. They'll finish the story on the website. Shame because I actually enjoyed the first two.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/26/pe...be-an-episode/
Bummer - i really enjoyed the first two.

They were however, extremely over-priced.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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* taps 2 Mountains and a Plain and casts Fireball on Michael Corvin. 3 direct damage.
*eyes his two untapped islands....*


Nah, i will let that one go through.


edit: and wouldn't 2 mountains and a plain only be 2 direct damage. I believe the casting cost is RX...
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Bummer - i really enjoyed the first two.

They were however, extremely over-priced.
Yeah, my friend bought them and said even at $15 each was way too much.
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Old 03-26-10 | 06:34 PM
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*eyes his two untapped islands....*


Nah, i will let that one go through.


edit: and wouldn't 2 mountains and a plain only be 2 direct damage. I believe the casting cost is RX...
I was flying off the cuff. There are two cards though, one's a RX for X damage and the other is 2 or 3 mana (maybe all red) for 3.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Most articles I have seen on GameRoom stated they hoped to have 1000 games on it by the end of 2012. So based on 7 a week every Thursday would make perfect sense. Overall I am pleased with the 2 games I have gotten so far of Yar's Revenge and Crystal Castles. My only gripe is that at least these older games should be more like 160 points($2) only. I would be definitely more inclined to buy a couple more at that price. Perhaps during the Summer Arcade sales they seem to have each year now we might get a discount on some of these or maybe even some value packs that include a couple games.
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Old 03-26-10 | 06:41 PM
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So I played around with removing Game Pack 001 from the hard drive to see what it would do to my arcade and, in theory, what visiting someone else's arcade that had content you don't have on the hard drive would do.

For the most part, it was intact. The cabinets I placed that were not found in the downloaded packs were ghosted out in a generic gold glow. No idea what they should be, but if you try to play it, it takes you directly to the appropriate pack to download yourself. Cool.

Missing mascots were simply missing.

Most notably, however, was the Lost Temple theme not being available. Talk about a major assumption blow in the design phase Anybody ever make any Doom maps with a missing texture? The space was just undefined and the system has a hard time rendering the space properly. There's no "missing theme" placeholder. Try it out for yourself, if you want.

For the most part, not bad, but that missing theme thing will hide cabinets, there or not.
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these game room games are way too expensive.
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A sequel to Hydro Thunder coming exclusively to XBLA and it looks awesome.

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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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A sequel to Hydro Thunder coming exclusively to XBLA and it looks awesome.
Awesome. Reminds me of Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild, which was one of my favorite games on thePS2.

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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Hydrophobia coming to XBL

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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Just won Toy Soldiers on Twitter!

Are people still playing this or has everyone moved on?
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Old 03-26-10 | 09:22 PM
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Just won Toy Soldiers on Twitter!

Are people still playing this or has everyone moved on?
I still play it.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Bullshit!

http://www.xboxlivegameroom.com/archives/111

Just wanted to provide some clarification on when you can expect to see new games up on Game Room, as there appears to be some confusion around that area.* New games will be added to the service every week, starting in late April.

That should give everyone enough time to have a look over Game Room and play a majority of the games available in the Showcase Arcade or even a friend’s arcade. It will also allow Krome Studios to fix the bugs that are plaguing the system, including missing achievements and server issues.

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By late April I will probably have completely forgotten about it.
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Old 03-27-10 | 08:38 PM
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Yup. Terrible idea. They have 90 or so games done. Go biweekly if necessary, but not full stop for a month.
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

Man they dropped the ball on this one big time. Perhaps this is due to all the issues they seem to be having with the servers and unfortunately they have to work on that before putting more games out for this?
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Re: XBLA Thread Part 400 - Pinata's got a brown nose

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Yup. Terrible idea. They have 90 or so games done. Go biweekly if necessary, but not full stop for a month.
So do you have any info as to what these 90 games are that they have done? At least that could lessen the blow if they are some games we can look forward to. Since as of now I have a whole 2 games that I even wanted from this 1st collection of games.
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Old 03-28-10 | 01:39 AM
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Nope. That number cam from the mouth of the head honcho on last week's Major Nelson show. Only thing we know for sure is Pitfall is in there. Maybe Satan's Hollow, which I'll buy for sure.
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By late April I will probably have completely forgotten about it.
I agree with the consensus, it's a bad idea; they should certainly capitalize on this while its hot. In a month's time, I'll still be interested but it would certainly be a waning interest to the point where I'd be really lazy about which games to get. *sigh*, oh well.
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Perfect Dark multplayer is a blast. My friends and I played it for a couple of hours this weekend. We were Goldeneye freaks, so playing the Facility again is a dream come true.
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A sequel to Hydro Thunder coming exclusively to XBLA and it looks awesome.
that looks amazing......
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